2. Interpret problem as emergency- barriers include some nice winter days (how can this be a problem?), optimism bias (Western world thinks future always better, at least for ourselves), hope for tech salvation, conservative political ideology. -@FridaHylander

3. Feel personal responsibility- "We need to think about what our responsibilities as humans are. What do we feel responsible for?" barriers include diffusion of responsibility- if everyone is responsible no one is, uncertainty who should do what. @FridaHylander

5. Ability to actually perform the action- remember that the sustainability crisis is also for us people, not just for the planet- many too stressed after meeting daily responsibilities, the thought of doing one more thing is just too much. @FridaHylander

I spoke too soon, there are 5 steps to helping- here are all of them! @FridaHylander

@FridaHylander describes four stages of engagement for #ClimateAction - often starts with personal behavior change, leading to political and civil engagement, perhaps high profile activism.

What motivates people to become (#climate) activists? Social reward often important to collective action, belief you can make a change, that you + others will benefit, normative (others expect you to, conversely avoided if others don't approve). @FridaHylander

Self and collective efficacy important motivation for pro-environmental behavior: belief you can succeed. Group identity and good vibes also draw people in (perhaps to deal with climate anxiety). Carrying out group actions can regulate individual & group feelings! @FridaHylander

Factors that mobilize activists and #ClimateAction (but strongest predictor is “politicized environmental identification”- a collective of people who create sociopolitical change). @FridaHylander

Remember the “spectrum of allies” (not to scale) - ignore the few (but loud!) active #climate opponents and focus on growing the large slice of passive #climate allies @FridaHylander

Suggested strategy by @FridaHylander to expand the reach of #climateaction: Recuit more and more diverse messengers and messages, make people feel welcome

5 ways to deal with #climate anxiety and grief: 1. Deny/diminish2. Ruminate (try to solve problem just by thinking about it) 3. Seek support 4. Act! 5. Find meaning and hope by being part of the change that will help us fight #climatechange. @FridaHylander

Critical closing message from @FridaHylander: #ClimateAction is for the long haul and we must rest and develop practices to strengthen our resilience.

As I replied to @EricHolthaus- I'm aware of and inspired by @givingwhatwecan & @GiveWell work on global health/poverty; I personally want to support climate mitigation. I realize there's no one right answer, depends on theory of change etc; curious to hear different perspectives.

Esp. in climate arena where impact could be on different possible levels (eg X tons avoided from cookstoves vs Y tons #fossil CO2 kept in the ground vs systemic political or economic change)- curious to hear diverse range of theory of change or evidence of effectiveness.

As always, the #peerreview effort by @IPCC_CH is Herculean. A couple hundred volunteer scientists read & cited 6,000+ studies to support conclusions w/ evidence. Responded to 42,001 comments in 3 rounds of review. The most robust process there is to establish scientific consensus

Now, this #SR15 report title is descriptive, but doesn't exactly roll off the tongue...

• From drilling to flaring to venting to condensing to compressing to pipeline, fracking is inherently leaky. Methane leaks are built into the engineering.

• Even if ALL the leaks were fixed, the CO2 emissions alone + ever-increasing # of wells =climate fail

• Fracking wells leak methane long after they are decommissioned. Plugging doesn’t stop the emissions bc methane seeps into the atmosphere from around the outside of the well casing as cement shrinks and crumbles with age. There is no #CutMethane fix for this problem.

While there is certainly nothing wrong with making individual low-carbon choices, I am increasingly concerned with how the #actonclimate movement is emphasizing individual lifestyle over collective action. There are two problems with this (thread).

One is that framing the issue in terms of lifestyle carries with it the race/class/health/wealth point of view of the framer. But not everyone's relationship with #climatechange is the same. This was the major critique of late 20th century environmentalism hcn.org/issues/42.2/th…

The second is that individual choices are small in terms of cutting carbon. Aside from having a kid (high impact b/c another carbon footprint is added), aviation, the second most carbon-intensive individual activity, is only 4-5% of human radiative forcing sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Scientists are once again warning about #climate armageddon. Thousands vetted the best science out there. More extinction, death and disease is in store if we don't act fast.

But I think we should focus on something uncomfortable: for many people, this is meaningless. /1

Let’s be clear: the IPCC report is a tour de force. Over 90 scientists spent years writing it, based on over 6,000 peer reviews. It says the planetary warming ALREADY caused “will persist for centuries to millennia.” It says we’re not acting fast enough to cut pollution. /2

The report adds to the vast global scientific consensus, based on an overwhelming body of evidence, that we’re pushing the planet into DANGEROUS and destructive warming conditions, by burning fossil fuels at industrial scales, and dumping carbon pollution into the air. /3

This came in the mail over the weekend. I don't get to read much fiction, so I think I'll enjoy it. #psychology

This whole paragraph (Gardner, 2011, p. xix) is a train wreck of scientific logic. Basically, Gardner says because he doesn't want to be a psychometrician, he doesn't have to gather data to multiple intelligences... and the theory isn't testable anyway.#psychology